Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems inventions 01/08

20080024387 - Modular electronic sign and method of assigning a unique identifier to common modules of said sign: A plurality of common, modular panels attach to a support frame carrying power and data connections for an electronic display sign. LEDs are used as the light mechanisms for illumination of said sign. Each modular panel is under separate microcontroller control and includes its own on-board memory. The electronic display... Agent: Larson And Larson

20080024388 - Two-sided display monitor apparatus: A display apparatus such as liquid crystal displays (LCD) or plasma displays or any other type of thin or flat display monitor apparatus having multiple display screens. The multiple display screens either consisting of double sided display screens, being slidingly engaged in a monitor housing having rails or being attached... Agent: Mark Sgantzos The Martinez Group PLLC

20080024389 - Generation, transmission, and display of sub-frames: A method performed by a sub-frame generator coupled to a network interface includes receiving calibration information associated with a configuration of a plurality of projection devices in an image display system using the network interface, generating a plurality of sub-frames for display onto at least partially overlapping positions on a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024390 - Method and system for producing seamless composite images having non-uniform resolution from a multi-imager system: A method and system for producing seamless composite images having non-uniform resolution from a multi-imager system is disclosed. A plurality of lower resolution source images is acquired. In addition, a plurality of higher resolution source images is acquired. The plurality of the lower resolution images and the higher resolution images... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024391 - Image alignment method for binocular eyewear displays: A method is provided for aligning, without user interaction, the two images of a binocular eyewear display (100) with respect to their vertical, horizontal, and rotational orientation, and with respect to magnification. The method for aligning images comprise generating a signal from a display modification system (108) based on stored... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20080024396 - Front substrate of plasma display panel: Provided is a front substrate of a plasma display panel. The front substrate includes a front glass substrate; a number of pairs of first electrodes which are formed in parallel with each other on the front glass substrate, and are made of a transparent conductive material; a number of pairs... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080024397 - Output driver and diplay device: First and second current sources are turned ON/OFF according to display data. A first input transistor has a source connected to a first potential, a drain connected to a second potential via the first current source, and a gate, the drain and the gate being coupled together. A second input... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024395 - Plasma display apparatus: A plasma display apparatus includes a display panel including first electrodes, second electrodes, and third electrodes, a first drive circuit configured to drive the first electrodes, a plurality of scan circuits configured to successively scan the first electrodes, a second drive circuit configured to drive the second electrodes, a third... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024394 - Plasma display device: In an address driving system for driving address electrodes of a display panel, GND for VCC is newly provided between an address driving board and an address bus board to organize two systems of GNDs (for VCC and for VH). Furthermore, in the GND for VCC, an impedance is applied... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080024401 - Optically addressed and driven luminescent display: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for optically addressing and driving a luminescent display. The method includes providing at least one light ray to a first location on a first surface of a waveguide at a first angle relative to the first surface such that said at least... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080024406 - Liquid crystal display: At least one embodiment of a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a gate conductor formed on the substrate and including a gate line and a gate electrode, a data conductor including a data line crossing the gate line and a source electrode placed on the gate electrode, and a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080024407 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes a pixel array region surrounded by a peripheral edge region. Gate driver TAB members are connected to the edge region. A group of lines for gate drivers which connects the gate driver TAB members is formed in the edge region. A shield layer... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080024405 - Liquid crystal display device and method of driving liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes display pixels which are arrayed in a matrix, a driver circuit which drives the display pixels in units of a predetermined number of rows, and a controller which controls the driver circuit so as to alternately execute non-video signal write in which a non-video... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080024408 - Systems for displaying images and driving method thereof: Systems for displaying images. The system comprises a display panel comprising a plurality of data lines DL(x), a plurality of gate lines SL(y) perpendicular to the data lines DL(x), and a pixel array coupled to the data lines and the gate lines. The pixel array comprises a first pixel P(x+1,... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080024411 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A LCD includes at least a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel with different area. Each sub-pixel displays luminance according to a positive or a negative data voltage corresponding to a grey value. When the grey values of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel are equal, an average value... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080024413 - Display and method for manufacturing display: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a display that includes a pixel array part having a plurality of pixel circuits that are arranged in a matrix and each have at least one transistor of which conduction state is controlled through reception of a drive signal... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080024414 - Liquid crystal display: A novel method for driving the data signal transmission and the photo signal readout in a pixel of a display as well as the novel pixel structure corresponding thereto is provided to overcome the lightness uniformity issue of the conventional touch sensitive display resulting from the configuration of readout line.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080024416 - Liquid crystal display device: This invention offers a liquid crystal display device according to FFS technology, which is capable of sufficiently providing a common electrode with common electric potential and improving an aperture ratio of pixels to obtain a bright display. A pixel electrode is formed of a first layer transparent electrode. A common... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080024417 - Common voltage compensation device, liquid crystal display, and driving method thereof: A common voltage compensation device suitable for a display panel of a liquid crystal display is provided. The common voltage compensation device includes a timing controller and a compensation circuit. The timing controller receives an image signal and generates control signals to the compensation circuit according to a determination mechanism.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080024418 - Liquid crystal display having line drivers with reduced need for wide bandwidth switching: A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines formed on the substrate, a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines, a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the thin film... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080024392 - Interactive method of presenting information in an image: The present invention relates to an interactive method of presenting information in an image to a user, who carries a head-mounted display device (2+5, 27), which presents an image of the surroundings (3, 9, 25). The method comprises that the user's head position and direction are established in relation to... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080024393 - Line head and image forming apparatus incorporating the same: In a line head, a plurality of element arrays arranged in a first direction. Each array includes a plurality of light emission elements arrayed in a second direction which is perpendicularly to the first direction. The light emission elements emit light for forming an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080024398 - Flat panel display and data multi-modulation method thereof: The present invention relates to a flat panel display device that is adaptive for preventing a brightness inversion phenomenon generated when the data modulated before are re-modulated in a multi-modulation method where data are modulated several times, and a data multi-modulation method thereof. The flat panel display device includes a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080024399 - Portable information apparatus and method of driving the same: There is provided a portable information apparatus including an EL display device which can reduce consumed electric power at the time when a still picture is displayed. In the EL display device included in the portable information apparatus, a plurality of memory circuits and a D/A converter are arranged in... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080024400 - Display apparatus and electronic device: A display apparatus includes a pixel array section and a drive section that drives the pixel array section. The pixel array section includes first scanning lines and second scanning lines arranged in rows, signals lines arranged in columns, matrix pixels that are provided at a position where the first scanning... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080024402 - Light-emitting display: Disclosed is a light-emitting display having a plurality of pixels wherein each pixel comprises a light-emitting device (100) having a light-emitting element layer which is formed between a first electrode and a second electrode and contains at least a light-emitting layer. An insulating layer (30) is formed between the light-emitting... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080024403 - Flat display and display panel thereof: A flat display includes a substrate, a pixel matrix, a data driver and a number of bias apparatuses. The pixel matrix is disposed on the substrate and includes several columns of first pixels and several columns of second pixels, wherein each column of second pixels is located between two adjacent... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080024404 - Liquid crystal display device: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel DP in which liquid crystal pixels PX are connected to a source line X via pixel switching elements, and a display control circuit CNT which performs non-video signal writing for driving the source line X according to a non-video... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080024410 - Device, system and method for color display: A color Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device for displaying a color image using at least four different primary colors, the device including an array of Liquid Crystal (LC) elements, driving circuitry adapted to receive an input corresponding to the color image and to selectively activate the LC elements of the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080024409 - Display device, display device adjustment method, image display monitor, and television receiver: The display device of an embodiment of the present invention includes a display section which includes a pixel having a plurality of sub pixels and displays an image whose luminance is based on a luminance gradation of an inputted display signal, wherein the display section is arranged so that an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024412 - Method of driving liquid crystal display element: In order to realize a display with a multilevel halftone that is excellent in uniformity by using a liquid crystal display element employing an inexpensive and general purpose driver having a low voltage endurance, a pulse application employing a cumulative response (overwriting) of liquid crystals is performed a plurality of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080024415 - Display panel, mask and method of manufacturing the same: A display panel includes a substrate, signal lines, a thin film transistor, a pixel electrode and a dummy opening. The substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The signal lines are disposed on the substrate and intersect each other to define a unit pixel.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080024420 - Drive circuit of display apparatus: In a drive circuit of a display apparatus in which a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines are orthogonalized, a first data latch circuit latches image data for every line in response to a horizontal signal. A decoder circuit decodes the latched image data. A gradation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024419 - Liquid crystal display device with influences of offset voltages reduced: A liquid crystal display device includes drain signal lines, gate signal lines, thin film transistors, and a drain driver. The drain driver includes an amplifier circuit having a switching circuit which switches between a first state and a second state, the first state being a state where a first input... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080024421 - Liquid crystal display driver and liquid crystal display device mounting the same: A liquid crystal display driver comprising: a first register for writing a setting value for display in response to a write control signal asynchronous with a clock signal outputted at a timing of switching display cycles; first data holding unit which holds an output from the first register in response... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080024422 - Inverter driving apparatus and liquid crystal display including inverter driving apparatus: An inverter driving apparatus for driving a plurality of lamp units is provided. The inverter driving apparatus includes a plurality of inverter boards for generating driving signals for driving respective lamp units based on a control signal and a voltage signal. Each lamp unit includes at least one lamp, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080024423 - Method and device for driving liquid crystal display panel, and liquid crystal display device using same: A driving device for an LCD panel is provided which is capable of preventing the occurrence of light or dark shade among pixels during a non-writing period. All the pixels of the LCD panel are driven by each source driver to receive various signals from a control section and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080024424 - Liquid crystal display device: A display device includes a display panel, a printed circuit board, and a semiconductor device of a film carrier type which is disposed to lie between the display panel and the printed circuit board and is mounted on a film carrier. Terminals of the film carrier are connected to terminals... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080024426 - Apparatus and method for characterizing electrophoretic display mediums: A method and an apparatus for measuring reflectivity, charge and/or particle mobility of electrophoretic display mediums and particles are described. The apparatus for evaluating characteristics of an electrophoretic display medium, comprising a cell for containing the electrophoretic display medium, located between conductive substrates, a voltage application unit associated with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080024431 - Drive method and a drive device for an electrophoretic display panel, an electrophoretic display device, and an electronic device: A drive method for an electrophoretic display panel having one electrode as a common electrode and another electrode divided into a plurality of segment electrodes, the drive method having steps of: applying pulses that change between two different potential levels to the common electrode; applying pulses at one of the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080024427 - Electronic ink display panel: An E-ink display panel including a substrate, display pixels, dummy pixels, a display medium and a common electrode is provided. The display pixels are disposed on the substrate and arranged in a matrix for defining a display region. The dummy pixels are disposed on the substrate and adjacent to the... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20080024430 - Electrophoretic display device: An electrophoretic display device which operates in a reflective display mode and a transmissive display mode adaptive to ambient light comprises a first substrate having a first electrode, a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a second electrode, a pair of spacers interposed between the first and second... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080024432 - Electrophoretic display device and fabrication thereof: An electrophoretic display device having improved frontal reflectance includes a first substrate including a first electrode of a transparent material having a first optical pattern, a second substrate opposing the first substrate and including a plurality of second electrodes, a spacer interposed between the first and second substrates to define... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080024428 - Electrophoretic display panel: For the electrophoretic display panel (1) to be able to be addressed by passive matrix techniques and to be used in light transmissive mode, the electrophoretic display panel (1) has a magnet (120) for generating a magnetic field, and a pixel (2) having electrodes (10,15) for receiving potentials for generating... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080024429 - Electrophoretic displays using gaseous fluids: An electrophoretic display comprises a pair of facing substrates, at least one of which is transparent, a plurality of particles and a gas between the substrates, and means for applying an electric field to cause the particles to move and thus change the electro-optic state of the display. The electric... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080024425 - Particle movement-type display apparatus and driving method thereof: In order to permit stable gradation display or high-speed display, when predetermined voltages are applied to a collection electrode 1 and a display electrode 2, respectively, to move particles between the collection electrode 1 and the display electrode 2, a voltage is applied to a pressing electrode 4 to press... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080024437 - Display apparatus and information processing apparatus: The information processing apparatus of the invention includes: a display section having a display screen on one surface thereof; a main unit that supports the display section so that the display section can be opened and closed with the one surface arranged inside, and, when opened, serves as a base... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080024436 - Information processing apparatus: The information processing apparatus of the invention includes: a display section having a display screen on one surface thereof; a main unit that supports the display section so that the display section can open and close with the one surface arranged inside, and, when opened, serves as a base to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080024435 - Information processing device and storage medium storing information processing program: An information processing device of the present invention includes a housing, a plurality of control buttons provided on a surface of the housing, button data generation means for, when one of the control buttons is operated, generating the control button data according to a kind of the control button, and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20080024438 - Interfacing an electronic device to a controller: A method of interfacing an electronic device to a manually operable fabric controller forming part of a personal item, such as an item of clothing or bag. A set of interface devices, each comprising a housing enclosing a processing circuit with analogue ports and control ports, and supporting a first... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024433 - Method and system for automatically switching keyboard/mouse between computers by user line of sight: An invention is disclosed for coupling a computer/display monitor combination with a dedicated sight recognition sensor that is capable of detecting head and/or eye movement from a user. When a sight recognition sensor for a given computer/display monitor combination detects that user sight is being fixed on the monitor, it... Agent: Gerald J. Iwanejko, Jr.

20080024434 - Sound information output device, sound information output method, and sound information output program: A sound such that a pitch of the sound gradually rises and drops in accordance with increase and decrease in a set value with an operation by a user while, for example, an original sound and a location of the sound remain constant, is output. In this case, the user... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080024440 - Device and method for providing resistive and vibrotactile effects: Systems and methods for providing resistive and vibrotactile feedback from a single actuator are described. One described system comprises a manipulandum, and a resistive haptic actuator configured to generate a resistive haptic force in order to generate a vibrotactile haptic effect.... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080024439 - Hand-held portable electronic apparatus: A portable electronic apparatus including a main body having a display unit on a surface and a protruding holding unit. The holding unit includes a pointing device and switches that are operated by a same hand holding the holding unit. The pointing device includes one of a stick type pointing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080024441 - Displacement type pointing device and method: A pointing device includes a displaceable member, a sense system, and a processing system. The displaceable member is movable in an operational zone. The sense system is operable to generate sense signals in response to a touching of the displaceable member by a user's finger and in response to different... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080024444 - Display scrolling method, display scrolling device, and display scrolling program: A display scrolling method for scrolling content displayed on a display screen of a display device according to a user operation includes the steps of, when a pointer of a pointing device is started to be dragged, calculating an amount of scrolling of the content to be scrolled with respect... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080024443 - Function command system, function command device, function command analysis system, presentation system, and computer readable medium: A function command analysis system includes an image input unit, a position information extraction unit, a function command specification unit and a function command output unit. The image input unit inputs an image containing an image generated by light emitted from a light emission device. The position information extraction unit... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080024442 - Wireless cursor indicating device: A wireless cursor indicating device includes a first body and a second body combined with each other. The first body includes a containing space for containing a control circuit and a wireless receiver, and ends of the first and second bodies include a positioning member and a wheel, and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080024446 - Computer mouse: A computer mouse includes a main body electrically connected with a computer, and a laser pointer. The main body includes two sidewalls, and a receiving space is defined in the main body bounded by the sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls defines a recess. The laser pointer is detachably mounted in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080024445 - Mouse device: A mouse device for a computer includes a shell; and a magnetic member fixed to the shell for holding the mouse to another object made of metal. When the mouse device is unused, it can be held on the object made of metal. Thus, there is more space on a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080024447 - Multidimensional mouse and stabilizer therefor: Example embodiments provide a mouse with a stabilizer. In particular embodiments, the stabilizer includes a U-shaped body which attaches to the bottom of the mouse so that the bottom surface of the U-shaped body forms a horizontal plane with the bottom surface of the mouse. In one embodiment, the U-shaped... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC (dba Tips Group)

20080024448 - Optical mouse having a light-sheltering device: An optical mouse having a light-sheltering device is used on an operating surface. The optical mouse includes a housing, a circuit board, a sensor and light source device, an IR control device, and a sheltering element. The circuit board is installed in the housing. The sensor and light source device... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080024450 - A system for command-line keyboard buffer viewing and editing: A system for processing and displaying command-line input data is described. The system includes a keyboard buffer configured to store a pending command entered in a command line interface such that the entered pending command may be executed shortly thereafter. The system also includes a display that houses a screen.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080024449 - Keypad and handheld electronic device having keys with phonetically corresponding latin and non-latin characters: An improved handheld electronic device and keypad provide non-Latin characters, such as letters from the Greek alphabet, that are arranged to phonetically correspond with the positioning of Latin characters of a QWERTY keypad. In one embodiment, many of the keys of the keypad have both a Latin character and a... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080024451 - Remote input device and electronic apparatus using the same: An electronic apparatus includes a remote input device, which has input-operation areas and a means for detecting input operations performed on the input-operation areas; a displaying portion for displaying selection buttons on a display; and an allocating portion for allocating the selection buttons to the input-operation areas. When the number... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080024452 - Method of data entry: A method for enabling a user to enter data into an electronic device, the method comprising: determining one or more characters as being likely to be selected next by the user; displaying the one or more characters on a display screen of the electronic device as suggested next characters; and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080024453 - Handheld computer having moveable segments that can be adjusted to affect a size of the handheld computer: A handheld computer is provided that includes a first module combined with one or more modules. The first module includes a housing having one or more coupling surfaces, with each coupling surface including a coupling mechanism. A second module is coupleable to the first module. The second module includes a... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080024459 - Apparatus and method for touch screen interaction based on tactile feedback and pressure measurement: An apparatus includes a display section with a touch screen, and the touch screen is adapted to display at least one graphical user interface object and detect a touch position on the touch screen. The apparatus has a haptic feedback generating unit attached to the touch screen and is adapted... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080024456 - Grounded button for cap sense: A touch-sensing device has a top and a bottom surface. A grounded connector is coupled to the bottom surface of the touch-sensing device and extends through the touch-sensing device to the top surface of the touch-sensing device. The touch-sensing device has a grounded layer. A first dielectric layer is on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080024455 - Technique for increasing the sensitivity of capacitive sensor arrays: A technique for operating a capacitive sensor array. The technique includes logically grouping capacitance sensors of an array of capacitance sensors into sensor groups. The sensor groups each include at least two capacitance sensors of the array of capacitance sensors. Values indicative of a capacitance for each of the sensor... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080024454 - Three-dimensional touch pad input device: Disclosed is a system, method and computer application for electronic equipment 10 having a user input device that outputs information indicative of a location and an applied pressure of an object touching the user input device. Based on a change in the location and/or applied pressure of the object touching... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080024458 - Assignment of functions to a softkey: The invention relates to a method of controlling an assignment of functions to a softkey 12 of an electronic device 10, wherein at least two different functions are available for an assignment to the softkey 12. The electronic device 10 further comprises touch sensitive means 15, which are adapted to... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080024457 - Operating device for a motor vehicle: An operating device is for operating a computing device, e.g., an operating device is for operating a computing device for controlling functions in a motor vehicle, the operating device including a display for optically displaying information, a touch screen situated above the display, for the input of commands by touching... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080024461 - Wiring harness and touch sensor incorporating same: A wiring harness and a touch sensor incorporating same are disclosed. The touch sensor includes a sensing electrode disposed in a touch sensitive area. The touch sensor further includes a plurality of auxiliary electrodes disposed on a self-supporting dielectric substrate in a border area. The auxiliary electrodes transmit a touch... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080024460 - Writing device for color electronic paper: A writing device is provided for color electronic paper which is capable of performing full color display. The writing device includes a head unit, a head unit moving mechanism which moves the head unit in a first direction, a feeding mechanism which moves electronic paper, and a controller. The head... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024462 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal has a body including a transparent window integrally formed therein, a display disposed beneath the body and visible through the transparent window, and a touch screen located between the display and the body, the touch screen permitting signal input in a capacitive manner.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080024463 - Reconfigurable tactile control display applications: This case concerns applications of my Reconfigurable Tactile Display (RTD) invention, particularly illustrating method and apparatus in which there is no rigid connection between a projector/electro-optical sensor unit, and a screen and control surface unit used to display data and receive user touch or control inputs. In many embodiments, elimination... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080024465 - Context driven navigation mechanism: A computing navigation mechanism includes a scroll wheel integrated below a keyboard layout for navigation of applications displayed on a computer screen. In one embodiment, the scroll wheel is configured to direct movement in response to a context of interaction with an application visible as active on the computer screen.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080024464 - Pointing device with moveable magnetic disc and method: Disclosed is a pointing device for facilitating user interaction with an electronic device. The pointing device includes a magnetic disc, a magnetic field over which the magnetic disc laterally travels in response to force applied by a user, and a plurality of sensors to detect the location of the magnetic... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080024467 - Determining sequence of frames delineated into sub-frames for displaying on display device: The ratio of a refresh rate of a display device to a refresh rate of source video is determined. The display device is to display the source video over a repeating number of sub-frames, in sub-frame order. The sequence of frames of the source video is determined for the display... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024471 - Driving apparatus for display device and display device including the same: A driving apparatus for a display device and a display device including the same include a plurality of pixels, each comprising a switching element, gate lines and data lines connected to the pixels. The driving apparatus includes: a gate driver which generates a gate signal and applies the gate signal... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080024473 - Driving method and driving unit with timing controller: A driving unit for a display device includes a buffer to provide first frame data and second frame data and a timing controller. The timing controller includes a first overdrive data generation unit responsive to the first frame data to output first overdrive frame data to the display device and... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080024469 - Generating sub-frames for projection based on map values generated from at least one training image: A method of displaying an image with a display system includes generating a plurality of map values based on at least one training image. A first image frame is received. A plurality of sub-frames corresponding to the first image frame are generated based on a geometric relationship between a reference... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024470 - Invisible, light-transmissive display system: An invisible, light-transmissive display system with a light resistant material is provided. Substantially invisible, tapered, light-transmissive holes are penetrated in a light-transmissive pattern through at least a portion of the light resistant material using a laser beam having a focal width less than the smallest diameter of the tapered holes.... Agent: Ishimaru & Zahrt LLP

20080024466 - Method for measuring effective operation of gyricon display device: A method of making a gyricon display device, and a method of determining a monopole charge and a dipole charge of beads in a gyricon display device, is set forth. In the methods, a rectangular waveform switching voltage is applied to the gyricon display device and the reflectance of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080024468 - Pixel structure of liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A method for activating a state transition of a liquid crystal in a liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display has a first substrate, a second substrate and plural pixel structures, wherein the liquid crystal is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate and each of... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080024472 - Method of driving display element: In a display element using cholesteric liquid crystal, to enable a high-speed partial screen rewrite, a region not to be partially rewritten is scanned in high-speed mode within the tolerance of crosstalk of the liquid crystal, and a region to be partially rewritten is partially rewritten by being scanned at... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080024475 - Display device: A display device includes a substrate, a display region having pixels on the substrate, a drive circuit element mounted on a peripheral portion of the substrate, a plurality of terminal portions formed on the peripheral portion and arranged on a mounting portion of the drive circuit element, and a plurality... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080024474 - Driving device and display apparatus having the same: A display device includes a timing controller, a data driver and a gate driver. The timing controller receives a first clock and an image data signal and outputs a second clock having a lower frequency than that of the first clock and the image data signal. The data driver receives... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080024476 - Display device and driving method thereof: A display device and a driving method thereof include a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a matrix form, for emitting different colors of light from each other, a plurality of driving transistors which supply a driving current to the light emitting elements, and photosensors which sense the amount... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080024477 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device which can provide stable discharging operations irrespective of variations in temperature. A load capacitor of a plasma display panel is charged or discharged via a switching element and a resistor element with one end to which a predetermined potential is supplied thereby creating a gradually varying... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080024478 - Digital-to-analog converter and image display device: Disclosed herein is a digital-to-analog converter. The digital-to-analog converter includes: a higher resistor string; a lower resistor string; an operational amplifier; a higher selector; a lower selector; a first switch; a higher capacitor; a second switch; a third switch; and a control circuit.... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080024479 - Organic electro-luminescent display device and manufacturing method thereof: An organic electro-luminescent display device capable of protecting an active layer region from unintended exposure to light is provided. An organic electro-luminescent display device includes a gate line; a data line extending substantially perpendicularly to the gate line; a power supply line supplying a power signal, a switching thin film... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080024480 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display panel includes a light-providing unit, a display panel and a panel driving unit. The display panel selectively displays an image corresponding to a first driving mode and a second driving mode using light from the light-providing unit. The panel driving unit includes a power supply, a data driver... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080024481 - Refresh circuit, display device including the same and method of refreshing pixel voltage: An image display device includes a display panel, a scan driver a data driver, a refresh circuit and a timing controller. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels activated through a plurality of scan lines, and an image data signals are provided through a plurality of data lines. The... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080024483 - Display control system for micromirror device: This invention provides a display control system that includes: a) a micromirror array comprising a plurality of mirrors; b) a first control function for controlling the mirrors in a first state; c) a second control function for controlling the mirrors in a second state; d) and a switchover controller for... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080024482 - Methods for driving electro-optic displays: Methods are provided for of driving a bistable electro-optic display having at least first and second pixels separated by an inter-pixel gap. In one method, there is applied to the first pixel a drive pulse which drives the pixel to one extreme optical state, and there is applied to the... Agent: David J Cole E Ink Corporation

20080024486 - Depth ordering of planes and displaying interconnects having an appearance indicating data characteristics: A method for determining a depth ordering between two planes in a 3D workspace of an application is provided. The method includes projecting vectors from a reference position through points of interest on the planes, determining corresponding points on the other plane, determining a number of points of interest on... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20080024485 - Multi-dimensional image display method apparatus and system: A method, apparatus, and system are disclosed for displaying a multi-dimensional image. The present invention enables real time extraction and interaction with surfaces contained within a multi-dimensional image volume.... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, LLC

20080024484 - Seamless image integration into 3d models: The present disclosure provides techniques that can enable a community of users to upload arbitrary images of particular locations and integrate them into a 3D model of that location in such a way that they appear as correctly aligned overlays with the model. Users can estimate rough location, orientation, and... Agent: Marc E. Brown Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080024487 - Converting deformation data for a mesh to animation data for a skeleton, skinning and shading in a runtime computer graphics animation engine: Animation of an object from a character modeling and/or animation tool is converted from a representation used by that tool to a representation used in a runtime animation system, such as a game engine. Such a tool typically represents the object using a source structure and a source skin. The... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20080024488 - Real time stereoscopic imaging apparatus and method: The present invention relates to a stereoscopic imaging apparatus (2). The apparatus (2) comprises a real time ultrasound imaging device (14, 20, 22) for generating a real time 3D model of a patient's heart (4), combining the real time 3D model with a static 3D model of the region surrounding... Agent: Philips Medical Systems Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080024489 - Cache utilization optimized ray traversal algorithm with minimized memory bandwidth requirements: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for recording the traversal history of a ray through a spatial index structure and utilizing the recorded traversal history. An image processing system may initially determine which nodes a ray intersects as it traverses through a spatial index. Results of the node... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080024490 - Real-time gpu rendering of piecewise algebraic surfaces: Surfaces defined by Bézier tetrahedron are generated on programmable graphics hardware. Custom programmed vertex processing, performed by either the CPU or the GPU includes the computation of a symmetric tensor and the assignment of the unique elements of the computed symmetric tensor as vertex attribute data. The vertex attribute data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080024491 - Real-time multi-resolution 3d collision detection using cube-maps: Apparatus, systems and methods for real-time, multi-resolution 3D collision detection using cube maps are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed including receiving a first polygon, receiving a second polygon and then using a texture map stored in memory to detect collisions between the first and second polygons. Other implementations... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080024492 - Relative geometry system and method: A system, method, and computer program product for reducing processing time related to relative geometry calculations performed for objects in a simulated three-dimensional environment. The method converts three-dimensional location coordinates of each object of a plurality of simulated objects in the simulated three-dimensional environment to coordinates of a two-dimensional grid.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080024493 - Systems and methods of direct volume rendering: A method and system of increasing the speed of a ray-casting algorithm for producing direct volume rendering images in the melt-through interaction mode. Since the viewing direction is not changed during a melt-through interaction, it is possible to reuse the samples calculated along each ray from one frame to another.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080024494 - Method and system for image based rendering large volumetric datasets: A method and system are provided for sequential data access in large volumetric data sets with focus on ray casting applications using 32-bit virtual address space.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080024495 - Re-render acceleration of frame with lighting change: Embodiments for accelerating the re-rendering of graphics frames are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20080024496 - Method for displaying 3d structures in 2d projection images: The invention relates to a method for displaying 3D structures in 2D projection images, with which the 3D structures are present as individual volumetric gray scale values, such as are supplied in particular as a result of volumetric scans with a number of sectional planes of medical tomographs, with which... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080024497 - Tile based precision rasterization in a graphics pipeline: In a raster stage of a graphics processor, a method for tile based precision rasterization. The method includes receiving a graphics primitive for rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics processor and rasterizing the graphics primitive at a first level precision to generate a plurality of tiles of pixels.... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080024498 - Device for representing and/or displaying various process and/or controlled variables: A device for representing and/or displaying various process and/or controlled variables for selectable application cases on a display unit, with bar graphs being arranged in respective, predetermined surface elements (A, B, C), with each bar graph, respectively each surface element (A, B, C), having a defined form and/or a defined... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080024499 - Method and apparatus of manipulating parameterized surfaces: Parametric surfaces such as Attribute Based Modeling surfaces require methods of manipulating the interior of the surface. This invention provides several methods of manipulating these surfaces in a computationally efficient way. Particular attention is paid to surface continuity and discontinuity from G−1 to G2. Designers want to trim and join... Agent: Christopher Bateman

20080024500 - Pen-based 3d drawing system with geometric-constraint based 3d cross curve drawing: A pen-based system allows users, such as artists, graphic designers and illustrators, and the like, to create accurate curve models by sketching. A tool set implemented in software that runs on a computer system combines paper sketch metaphors and a minimalist gesture set. This tool set provides an environment where... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20080024501 - Document editing support device, program, and storage medium: A document editing support device includes: an object obtaining unit that obtains at least one object as data representing at least one of a text and an image included in a document as a target to be edited; a split ratio storage unit that stores a predetermined split ratio; a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024502 - Document editing device, program, and storage medium: [MEANS FOR ACHIEVING THE OBJECT] The present invention provides a document edit device including: object obtaining means that obtains an object as data expressing at least one of a text and an image; and object edit means that edits the object so that, based on a volume of the object... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024503 - Rigless retargeting for character animation: Motion may be transferred between portions of two characters if those portions have a minimum topological similarity. The portions or structures of the source and target character topologies may be represented as one or more descriptive files comprised of a hierarchy of data objects including portion identifiers and functionality descriptors... Agent: Peter J. Gordon, Patent Counsel

20080024505 - Facs solving in motion capture: A method, comprising: generating facial muscle activations from facial marker data; animating a computer graphics facial model using the facial muscle activations; generating a skin layer overlaying the computer graphics facial model; and animating the skin layer using the facial marker data.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080024504 - Method to imitate lifelike images for computer deformed objects: A method to imitate lifelike images for computer deformed objects includes the following steps, selecting a number of significant points on an object, categorizing the significant points into measurable points and specific points, defining a relationship between the measurable points and the specific points with a statistical regression model, creating... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080024506 - A programmable graphics processor for multithreaded execution of programs: A processing unit includes multiple execution pipelines, each of which is coupled to a first input section for receiving input data for pixel processing and a second input section for receiving input data for vertex processing and to a first output section for storing processed pixel data and a second... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080024507 - Component suppression in mechanical designs: The complexity of a CAD model is reduced while its kinematic integrity is maintained by unloading certain data associated with the CAD model from the main memory of a computing device used in the design of the CAD model. The unloaded data includes graphics data and geometry data of those... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080024508 - Image capturing apparatus: An image capturing apparatus is provided having an auto-focusing device and an image displaying device. The auto-focusing device focuses a lens on a photographing object automatically. The image displaying device displays an input image which corresponds to the photographing object and is updated periodically in a display, and displays an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080024509 - Data management for image processing: A system comprises a memory storing data at addresses associated with pixels in images, each address being linked by a function to coordinates of a pixel in an ordered image reference frame, a device for processing the data associated with the pixels, where a pixel being processed is referenced by... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080024511 - Application of selective regions of a normal map based on joint position in a three-dimensional model: A method for use in animation includes the steps of establishing a model having a plurality of joints, exposing a region of a first normal map based on a position of one or more of the joints, and applying the exposed region of the first normal map to the model.... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20080024510 - Texture engine, graphics processing unit and video processing method thereof: The texture engine, provided in this disclosure, comprises a texel location calculator, a texture cache unit, and a video processing unit. The texel location calculator receives a texture and video request for a pixel, including location information of texture data for the pixel in a texture map stored in a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080024512 - System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes: Systems and methods for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without comprising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing a predetermined property revealed by the attributes. The combined image can be interactively manipulated to display each attribute relative to an... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20080024513 - Method and apparatus for encoder assisted pre-processing: This application includes devices and methods for processing multimedia data to generate enhanced multimedia data at a receiver based on encoder assisted pre-processing. In one aspect, processing multimedia data includes identifying at least one pixel intensity range in at least one image of multimedia data, modifying at least a portion... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080024514 - Projection type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium and image projection method: To provide a projection type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium and image projection method which can project an image applicable to viewing environment of a changed projection position, a liquid crystal projector is provided with: a sensor for sensing a projection target area and outputting sensing information;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080024515 - Systems and methods of determining sampling rates for volume rendering: A system and method of determining a sampling rate for rendering a volumetric image, the method includes determining a regional variation value representing regional data, color, and/or alpha variation. An accumulated opacity value is determined that represents opacity accumulated over a ray in the image, and a regional opacity value... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080024516 - Electronic device and program product: In an electronic device, display colors of an operation key shown on a display is controlled with a simple configuration in both the cases of selecting the operation key with a cursor and selecting the operation key by touch of a user. An electronic control unit displays an operation key... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080024517 - Systems and methods for color preservation with image tone scale corrections: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for generating and applying image tone scale corrections with improved color fidelity.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080024518 - Pixel shift display with minimal noise: Within a display system that has pixel arrays displayed during first and second intervals, visible noise reduction occurs by confining the noise to one interval by combining the fractional part of each first interval pixel with the fractional part of at least one second interval pixel. If the combined fractional... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080024520 - Digital image file transmission: At a device of a sending user, the following is performed. A thumbnail image and a smaller-sized image are generated for each digital image file. The smaller-sized image file is smaller in size than the digital image file but greater in size than the thumbnail image file for the digital... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080024519 - System and method for producing paintings: A method and apparatus for producing simulated paintings by means of a commercial software programs that enhances a digital representation of a scene or portrait. The enhancement can include various composing steps on the digital representation as well as the adding of electronic brush strokes to the digital representation by... Agent: Roger M. Rathbun

20080024521 - Method and editing processor for adding graphics object with simple manner: An editing processor includes a storage unit to store a document file that includes an object group in which objects are arranged according to an implementation order at each page of an electric document, a reading unit to read the object group from the storage unit in response to a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080024522 - Accellerated start tile search: In a raster stage of a graphics pipeline, a method for accelerated start tile rasterization. The method includes defining a window for clipping a generated image and receiving a graphics primitive for rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics processor. A binary search related to the window is performed... Agent: Nvidia C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080024523 - Generating images combining real and virtual images: A method for combining a real space image with a virtual image, includes: causing an imaging unit to capture an image of a real space; generating an image covering a predetermined space based on a plurality of real images in the captured real space; extracting position information of a light... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080024524 - Visualization of medical image data at actual size: At least one embodiment of the invention relates to the display of image data collected for medical purposes at actual object size, in particular to a device, a method and/or a computer program for driving a display unit. In at least one embodiment, the device for driving a display unit... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080024528 - Apparatus and method for adjusting color characteristics of display system using diffractive optical modulator: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for adjusting the color characteristics of a display system using a diffractive optical modulator, which can respond to a user's request to vary color characteristics so as to actively respond to variation in the brightness of external light, etc., and can... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080024527 - Display drive apparatus and display apparatus: A display drive apparatus drives a display panel, including display pixels, to carry out gradation display in accordance with display data. First gradation data with a first number of bits corresponding to the display data is supplied to the display drive apparatus, which generates second gradation data from the first... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080024525 - Display panel driving device and driving method thereof: The present invention discloses a display panel driving device and a driving method thereof, wherein the display panel driving device includes a plurality of mapping table units and a source driver. The mapping table units receive a plurality of primary color signals respectively, and convert grayscale levels of the primary... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080024526 - Organic light emitting diode display and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of driving the same are provided. The OLED display includes: a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, each of which includes a switching transistor and a driving transistor; a plurality of data lines connected to the switching transistors, which... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080024529 - Display device and pixel circuit layout method: The present invention provides a display device including a pixel array unit, a first power supply line, and a second power supply line. The pixel array unit is formed by two-dimensionally arranging pixel circuits each including an electrooptic element determining display luminance and a driving circuit for driving the electrooptic... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080018553 - Optical system unit and projector: An optical system unit of a projector of the invention includes an illumination side block, an image producing block and a projection side block, the image producing block, in which a DMD display device is fixed which reflects rays of “off” state light to the outside of an entrance opening... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080018554 - Display system and display control method: A display system has a single screen configured of plural display devices, and the system comprises: a receiving unit adapted to receive plural pieces of image data; a segmentation unit adapted to segment the received plural pieces of image data in accordance with the arrangement of the plural display devices;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080018555 - See-through display: In a particular embodiment, a see-through display includes a screen having transparent layer of material with a front side and a back side. At least one plurality of shaped louver members is disposed between the front side and the back side. The plurality of the louver members allow transmission of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080018557 - Display device, method of driving display device, and electronic apparatus: A display device has a plurality of pixels, a scanning line driving circuit, and a signal line driving circuit. The plurality of pixels are in correspondence with intersections of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines. The scanning line driving circuit supplies a selection signal to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080018561 - Driving device of plasma display panel and method of driving the same: A driving device of a plasma display panel and a method of driving the plasma display panel are disclosed. A method of driving a plasma display panel receiving a video signal and displaying an image on the screen includes performing an inverse-gamma correction process on the video signal, calculating an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018562 - Plasma display panel: Provided is a PDP including a first substrate; sustain electrode pairs, each of which includes a main electrode unit separated from the first substrate, facing each other and elongated on a rear surface of the first substrate, and a plurality of protruding electrode units connecting to the main electrode unit... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080018563 - Plasma display panel: A PDP is proposed which has high emission efficiency and which can decrease address discharge voltage. In a column direction of at least one of transparent electrodes, which perform sustain discharge via respective discharge gaps of a pair of row electrodes and constituting a row electrode pair, is set to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080018564 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a first electrode and a second electrode, and a driver. The driver supplies a first sustain signal of a first polarity to the first electrode during a... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080018567 - Display: According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a display that includes a plurality of pixel circuits, a scanner, and a drive interconnect. The plurality of pixel circuits are arranged in a matrix and each includes at least one transistor of which the conduction state is controlled... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080018569 - Organic light emitting diode display device and driving method thereof: An organic light emitting diode display device includes; a display panel including a pixel connected to a gate line and a data line, gate and data driving circuits which drive the gate and data lines, respectively, at least one temperature sensor disposed on the display panel which senses a temperature... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080018568 - Organic light-emitting diode (oled) panel and driving method thereof: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel and driving method thereof is provided. The OLED panel includes a plurality of data lines, scan lines, pixels, sampling voltage lines and compensation voltage lines. The sampling voltage line transmits a compensation voltage in response to compensation signals from the data lines, threshold voltages... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080018572 - Display substrate and display device having the same: A display substrate includes gate lines, driving circuit part, signal lines, connection lines and a contact part. Gate lines are formed on a display area and intersect data lines. Driving circuit part is formed on a peripheral area surrounding the display area and provides a gate signal to the gate... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080018574 - Drive circuit having plural output amplifiers for driving display cells with delay minimized: A circuit for driving a liquid crystal display includes decoders for receiving input data to display, and output amplifiers correspondingly connected to the decoders for selectively driving display cells. In each output amplifier, the gate electrodes of a first transistor forming one input of a differential amplifier and a second... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080018571 - Motion adaptive black data insertion: A backlight display has improved display characteristics. An image is displayed on the display which includes a liquid crystal material with a light valve. The display receives an image signal and modifies the light based upon motion.... Agent: Kevin L. Russell Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel LLP

20080018576 - Display element having groups of individually turned-on steps: A display element corresponds to a pixel of a display. The display element includes a first electrode connected to a first addressable line of the display, and a number of second electrodes, each of which is connected to a corresponding second addressable line of the display. The display element includes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080018577 - Display element having individually turned-on steps: A display element corresponds to a pixel of a display. The display element includes a top electrode connected to a first addressable line of the display, and a bottom electrode connected to a second addressable line of the display. The display element includes a display mechanism situated between the top... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080018578 - Display devices and driving method thereof: Display devices with low power consumption. In the display device, and first and second data lines, first and second gate lines, first and second supplemental lines, first and second pixels are provided. In the first pixel, a first transistor comprises a first terminal coupled to the first data line and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080018579 - Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof: A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel including a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor having a first terminal connected to the liquid crystal capacitor and a second terminal applied... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080018580 - Apparatus for driving a display device and method therefor: Apparatus for driving a display device and method therefor. The apparatus is used for controlling the display device to display video frames according to a video signal. The apparatus includes a controller, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. The controller is used for generating a first control... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080018582 - Image data refreshing method and display system using the same: An image data refreshing method used in an image data displaying device is provided. The method includes the following procedures. First, a refreshing center of a display area is defined according to a visual focus of a present frame displayed on the display area. Next, the display area is divided... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080018556 - Method for micropackaging of leds and micropackage: A micropackage including a substrate composed of a flexible plastic material having laminated on opposite sides thereof films of a conductive metal. A cavity is formed in the substrate with the laminated film on a first side having at least one tab projecting into the cavity. An LED having a... Agent: Koppel, Patrick & Heybl

20080018558 - Electronic display with photoluminescent wavelength conversion: Embodiments including methods and apparatuses for displaying an image including generating a first modulated and scanned excitation beam; generating a second modulated and scanned excitation beam; impinging the first and second modulated and scanned excitation beams onto a photoluminescent screen; and responsively converting the wavelengths of the first and second... Agent: Christopher A. Wiklof Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20080018559 - Image display apparatus: An image display apparatus that has a display section provided with a first plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Sequentially generated are dither signals each formed in a matrix of P rows×Q columns (P and Q being both positive integers and at least either one being 2 or more)... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20080018560 - Method of addressing a plasma display panel: A novel addressing technique, aimed at reduced addressing time of a PDP panel is disclosed in the present invention. The invention uses new scanning voltage waveform, new voltage waveforms for bulk sustain and data electrodes, as well as discharges in all the pixels (both ON and OFF), which allows to... Agent: Vladimir Nagorny

20080018565 - Plasma display apparatus and method of driving the same: A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a scan electrode, and a scan driver that supplies a setup pulse to the scan electrode. The setup pulse gradually rises to a first voltage level with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080018566 - Electronic device and electronic apparatus: An EL display having high operating performance and reliability is provided. LDD regions 15a through 15d of a switching TFT 201 formed in a pixel are formed such that they do not overlap gate electrodes 19a and 19b to provide a structure which is primarily intended for the reduction of... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080018570 - Aging compensation for display boards comprising light emitting elements: The present invention provides a display board (30) comprising an array of light emitting elements (31), a driving means (32) for driving the light emitting elements (31) with image data, and an aging determination means (33). The aging determination means (33) comprises one or more light emitting elements for emitting... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080018575 - Illumination device and liquid crystal display device using the same: An illumination device is provided which can reduce a movement blur and a tailing phenomenon on a motion picture display while a drop in display brightness is suppressed, and which can suppress power consumption, can be made small and light, and can prolong the lifetime, and a liquid crystal display... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080018573 - Liquid crystal display panel, driving method and liquid crystal display: In one embodiment of the invention, a pixel unit has two sub-pixel regions each including a liquid crystal capacitor (LCC) and storage capacitor (SC). The capacitance ratio of the SC to LCC of the first sub-pixel differs from the capacitance ratio of the SC to LCC of the second sub-pixel.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080018581 - Display device and method of driving the same: A display device includes a display panel, a source driving part, a gate driving part, a readout part and a pulse generating part. The display panel includes an array substrate on which a source line and a gate line are formed, and an opposite substrate on which a common electrode... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080018584 - Liquid crystal display module and liquid crystal display apparatus having the same: A liquid crystal display module includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight assembly, a circuit board and a timing controller. The circuit board includes a first connector receiving a data signal and a second connector separated from the first connector and receiving a power supply voltage. The timing controller... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080018583 - Non-rectangular display device: A display device comprises a substrate; an array of display pixels arranged on the substrate in rows and columns, a first and last row being at the top and bottom of the array, the outer shape of the array being nonrectangular; a plurality of row conductors, each row conductor being... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080018586 - drive circuit for generating a delay drive signal: A drive circuit includes a drive unit coupling with data lines for receiving at least one clock signal and a first enable signal to generate a drive signal to drive data lines, and a delay unit electrically coupled with the drive unit for receiving the clock signal and the first... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080018585 - Driving circuit, system, and method to improve uniformity of column line outputs in display systems: A driver circuit, display system, and method includes a driver circuit that provides driving signals to drive a plurality of display pixel elements arranged in a plurality of rows and columns and coupled to associated row and column lines, respectively. The driver circuit includes a plurality of driver units coupled... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080018588 - Liquid crystal display device: In a predetermined period (one frame or one subframe), a backlight is lit between the mid-point of primary data-writing scanning and the mid-point of secondary data-writing scanning for each of lighting regions of which the backlight is divided into four. When the time required for the data-writing scanning is 50%... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080018587 - Liquid crystal display device, driving control circuit and driving method used in same: A liquid crystal display device is provided which improves quality of images made up of moving images and images having moving images and still images in a mixed manner. Each frame of an input video signal having a specified frame frequency (60 Hz) is divided into four sub-frames each having... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080018589 - Drive apparatus for bistable displayer and method thereof: A drive apparatus for a bistable displayer and a method thereof are provided for driving a bistable displayer with a plurality of pixels. The drive apparatus includes an initialization unit, a receiving unit and a display drive unit. The initialization unit is for generating at least one initial potential level... Agent: Law Offices Of Lai & Associates, P.C.

20080018592 - Apparatus and method for haptic support in portable terminal: Provided are an apparatus and method for haptic support in a portable terminal. A haptic emitter provides an indication of a position change according to a manipulation of a button by a user, and receives control data and emits vibration or emits a reactivity opposite a predetermined direction. A position... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080018593 - Image forming control apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming control apparatus includes a display unit, a user input unit that allows a user to move a pointer on a picture displayed on the display unit, a printer driver that includes a setup information storing unit in which setup information for a plurality of setup items related... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080018590 - Switch deploy with display lifting unit: A switch deploy with display lifting unit has a display lifting unit, a display and a switch. The display lifting unit is controlled by the switch. The switch is integrated into an operation platform so that the display lifting unit is controlled directly by operating the operation platform.... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080018591 - User interfacing: A display is projected, information representing an image of the projected display and at least a portion of a pointing device in a vicinity of the projected display is optically captured, and the display is updated based on the captured image information.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080018594 -